The following awards and lectureships will be presented at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium in December:
Joan S. Brugge, PhD, Chair of the Department of Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School, will receive the Susan G. Komen Brinker Award for Scientific Distinction in Basic Research and will deliver the plenary lecture, "Building Upon Advances in Cancer Research to Improve Therapeutic Strategies in the Future."
Mitchell Dowsett, PhD, FMedSci, Professor and Head of the Centre for Molecular Pathology at Royal Marsden Hospital and Institute of Cancer Research, will receive the Susan G. Komen Brinker Award for Scientific Distinction in Clinical Research and will deliver the plenary lecture, "What Relevance Have Hormones for Breast Cancer in the Genomic Era."
The Brinker awards are presented to basic and clinical researchers who have made seminal advances in the fight against breast cancer. In addition, the awards recognize scholars for a specific contribution, a consistent pattern of contributions, or leadership in the field that has had a substantial impact on the fight against breast cancer.
James N. Ingle, MD, Professor of Oncology at Mayo Clinic, will present the William L. McGuire Memorial Lectureship, "Pharmacogenomics in the Quest for Precision Endocrine Therapy on Breast Cancer." The award recognizes his contributions to breast cancer research, and is named after one of the two cofounders of the Symposium, to commemorate that, along with his major role in introducing estrogen receptor assays on breast tumor tissue as a guide to breast cancer treatment decisions.
Yibin Kang, PhD, the Warner-Lambert Parke-Davis Professor of Molecular Biology in the Department of Molecular Biology at Princeton University, will receive the American Association for Cancer Research Outstanding Investigator Award for Breast Cancer Research, which recognizes an investigator age 50 or younger whose novel and significant work has had or has the potential to have a far-reaching impact on the etiology, detection, diagnosis, treatment, or prevention of breast cancer. He will present the lecture, "Origin of Metastatic Traits in Breast Cancer."
Mary-Claire King, PhD, Professor of Genome Sciences and of Medicine at the University of Washington and this year's recipient of the Lasker-Koshland Special Achievement Award, will present the AACR Distinguished Lectureship in Breast Cancer Research, which recognizes outstanding science that has inspired or has the potential to inspire new perspectives on the etiology, diagnosis, treatment, or prevention of breast cancer. King will present the lecture, "Genomic Analysis of Inherited Breast and Ovarian Cancer."